The Israeli company OrSense has developed a new non-invasive technology for monitoring blood glucose levels for diabetes. The new technology will completely eliminate the need to draw blood, an ordeal that millions of people suffering from this incurable disease have ...

A research team from Japan was able to store data on the DNA of a bacteria. Although this breakthrough doesn’t seem to have any immediate applications it might be an important step in the development of future biological computers. Biological ...

A team of researchers discovered the way a specific kind of bacterium can survive enormous levels of ionizing radiation including X-rays and gamma-rays. The team from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) was able to uncover the ...

In the last several years robots have entered more and more areas of our lives. One of these new areas is medical treatment and surgery in particular where the high precision and stability of the robot can prove to be ...

U.S.-based Luminetx has developed the VeinViewer to afford medical professionals a quick and convenient look at a patient’s vasculature. A near-infrared LED (light emitting diode) source differentiates red blood cells of subcutaneous veins from surrounding tissues and arteries. Using a ...

A team of researchers from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have developed a micro-sized laboratory capable of analyzing minute blood samples to determine the exact levels of red and white blood cells as well as other blood components. The research, ...

The PillCam Colon Video Capsule Endoscope by the Israeli company Given Imaging Ltd. will spare you that vital colonoscopy you’ve been putting off. Essentially a camera in a pill to photograph your insides, PillCam imaging is considered to be a ...

Researchers from the Indiana University at Bloomington and Brown University have discovered what could be nature’s strongest “super glue”, with a myriad of applications ranging from emergency wound-healing to mending damaged vessels at sea. How does an aquatic bacterium that ...

Collaboration between neuroscientists at several universities has led to the recent discovery of a protein complex that appears to cause cognitive decline and loss of memory. Such a finding provides a potential target for prevention of dementia associated with Alzheimer’s ...

Andrew Z. Fire (left) and Craig C. Mello – The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is shared by Professor Andrew Z. Fire from Stanford University, California, and Professor Craig C. Mello from the University of Massachusetts Medical School ...